Old Sydney

1883 18 photos

Macquarie Lighthouse old and new far view, c. 1883Macquarie Lighthouse old and new removed lantern, c. 1883Macquarie Lighthouse old and new 2, c. 1883Macquarie Lighthouse, lantern detail from old lighthouse 2, c. 1883Macquarie Lighthouse, lantern detail from old lighthouse 3, c. 1883Unvieling Morts statue 1883SCG 1883 01-3The Macquarie Lighthouses – old and new, c.1883, photograph by Charles Bayliss, Macleay Collections, c. 1883TS mort's statue, 1883Callan Park Hospital, Rozelle c.1883, c. 1883Callan Park Hospital, c.1883, c. 1883George Street, Sydney 1883Newtown Court House, 1883Gladesville Hospital, 1883, c. 1883Gladesville Hospital, 1883, c. 1883Gladesville Hospital, 1883, c. 1883England v. Australia Cricket Match at the Sydney Cricket Ground, January 27 1883 - by unknown photographerMacquarie Lighthouse, c. 1883

1884 9 photos

John Douglas Young A-00041413, 1884Alderman George Carter, 1884Derailment at Campbelltown, 1884View towards Town Hall from 255 George Street, Sydney, c. 1884George Street, Sydney 1884Guilia Majeroni, actor, 1884 - Tuttle and Co., San Francisco Portrait Parlors, 84 Elizabeth Street MelbourneThe merchant vessel - a sailor boy's voyages around the world (1884)Believed to be NSW volunteers Easter Encampment at Windsor April 1884 - TentsMacquarie Lighthouse, Vaucluse N.S.W. old and new side-by-side, 1884

1885 20 photos

Balmain Rowing Sheds, Sydney, c. 1885Staff inside the Free Public Library (old State Library of New South Wales), c. 1885John Smith SLNSW, c. 1885StateLibQld 1 134042 Altcar (ship), c. 1885Croydon Station, Sydney c.1885, c. 1885Soudan departure 1885Sydney tram, c.1885, c. 1885Railway Station - Blacktown, c.1885, c. 1885Parramatta Court House - under construction, 1885George Street, Sydney, c. 1885NSW Survey Office, Sydney, c. 1885Watson or Playfair family baby in a basket, ca. 1885 - photographer Charlemont and Co., Royal Arcade, SydneyPearce family, Blenheim House, Randwick, Sydney, N.S.W., ca. 1885 - photographer J. Roarty, Mkt. St., George St, c. 1885Departure of troopships 'Australian' and 'Iberia' for the Soudan, 1885HMS Nelson in Sydney Harbour between 1885Captain James Cook's Statue, Hyde Park, Sydney, c. 1885Manly paddle steamer ferry FAIRLIGHT circa 1885, c. 1885Fort Macquarie Bischoff 1885, c. 1885Woollahra House circa 1885, c. 1885Sydney ferry BENELON as originally built circa 1885, c. 1885

1886 7 photos

Jennings ministry 1886–1887Sydney ferry PEARL (II) at Figtree Wharf, c. 1886Miss Gertrude Powys as The Angel in the pantomime Sleeping Beauty at the Theatre Royal, 1886Thomas Saywell's Sea Baths and Hotel (The Sydney Mail, 18 Dec 1886, p28)Five Roads Hotel, 1886Miss Gertrude Powys as The Angel in the pantomime Sleeping Beauty at the Theatre Royal, 1886 - photographer J. T. Gorus, SydneySydney Ferry WARATAH (II), c. 1886

1887 6 photos

Alderman Alban Joseph Riley J.P. (1885-1891) Mayor 1887Mort’s Dock 1887Sunbeam & other craft Sydney Harbour, 1887Brighton-le-Sands, NSW - New Brighton Hotel, main entrance (Australian Town & Country Journal, 31 Dec 1887, p26)Brighton-le-Sands, NSW - New Brighton Hotel, side view and steam tramway (Australian Town & Country Journal, 31 Dec 1887, p26)Chinese men Sydney c.1887, c. 1887

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244 historic photos of Sydney from the 1880s, by year, then those the library dates to a span of years. They come from Wikimedia Commons; each photo’s page gives its credit, its licence and a link to its original record.